 |
|
|  |
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
SNP and Tories team up to betray Glasgow
|
 |
|
|
 Strathkelvin & Bearsden MSP David Whitton has accused the Tories and the SNP of teaming-up to betray Glasgow by voting down Labour’s efforts to reinstate the Glasgow Airport Rail Link in the budget. more...
|
Victory for disabled bus users
|
|
|
|
Disabled bus passengers in East Dunbartonshire on low rate Disability Living Allowance (DLA) are a step closer to getting free bus travel after David Whitton MSP for Strathkelvin & Bearsden and his colleagues put pressure on the SNP minority government to back their campaign. more...
|
Business community has no confidence in SNP
|
|
|
|
David Whitton MSP for Strathkelvin & Bearsden said that businesses are delivering a vote of no-confidence in the SNP. more...
SNP admit failing Scottish kids
|
|
|
David Whitton MSP has commented on reports that Mike Russell has admitted that the SNP class size pledge will not be met in the lifetime of this parliament - or, possibly, the next. more...
|
|
| |
|
Scottish Government turn back on Local Democracy |
|
|
|
Strathkelvin & Bearsden MSP David Whitton had hit out at SNP MSPs Stewart Maxwell, Stuart McMillian, Gill Paterson and Bill Wilson after they voted against a motion to support the Scottish newspaper industry. more...
|
|
|
SNP sends wrong message on domestic abuse |
|
|
|
David Whitton MSP reiterated his call for Kenny MacAskill to scrap his ‘dangerous plans’ to scrap short prison sentences after it was revealed that 93 per cent who get sent to prison for domestic abuse sentences get jail terms of six months or less. more...
|
|
|
|
|
David calls for action on teen drinking |
|
|
|
David Whitton has reiterated the call for a national consensus to tackle alcohol related problems after new figures showed that 900 children with alcohol-related psychological and behavioural problems were admitted to hospital in one year. more...
|
David praises local apprentices |
|
|
|
David Whitton has praised the work of the Bishopbriggs based apprenticeship scheme, Carillion Tigers. On a recent visit to the site in Huntershill Village David met with Carillion bosses along with Iain Gray MSP, Labour’s leader in the Scottish Parliament. more...
x
|
David condems poor community service record |
|
|
10% of criminals in East Dunbartonshire are failing to complete their community sentences, according to shocking statistics obtained by David Whitton MSP. The new figures reveal that across Scotland, a third of all offenders that start community orders do not finish them. more...
|
David slams SNP justice plans |
|
|
David Whitton has attacked the Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill over plans to close a third of courts in Scotland. The plans show proposals to cut the number of Judges and Sheriffs. The proposals would mean that victims and witnesses of crime would see longer delays for cases to come to court. This is another example of Kenny Macaskill ‘losing the plot’ on justice issues. more...
|
David supports hospital parking bill |
|
|
Glasgow Springburn MSP Paul Martin is seeking cross-party support to launch the next stage of his members' bill to scrap all charges in NHS car parks. His consultation is now complete and a majority of respondents backed the proposals. more...
|
|
SNP in danger of delivering second rate climate change bill |
|
|
David Whitton has urged the Scottish Government not to settle for anything less than a forty per cent target to cut harmful emissions by 2020. David Whitton said, "The SNP have hyped this Bill up as being world-class but unless Scotland heads towards a 40 per cent target for 2020, it will end up being a second-class piece of legislation." more...
|
Scottish housing needs improving |
|
|
Strathkelvin & Bearsden MSP David Whitton has expressed deep concern that the number of socially rented homes in Scotland is at its lowest for 50 years. He said, "The SNP’s record on housing has been exposed as more spin than delivery". more...
|
Salmond fails on nursery pledge |
|
Alex Salmond's manifesto commitment to increase the provision of free nursery education for three and four year olds by 50 per cent is failing according to David Whitton MSP. more... |
|
|
 |
|